I think it’s a common experience for people to have a hard time expressing themselves freely around people they just met, even more so in a work environment. I thought that I would just talk about work things with work people. That changed when I learned about the concept of check-ins.

Positivity is a ripple, as they say, so perhaps a workplace like PW doesn’t have to be as rare as it is now. I hold the belief that the work is not done until PW is no longer the exception; and as part of that ripple, I hope I can do unto others what PW has helped me achieve.

Last July 1-3, PSSP held their very first conference on ginhawa (Unang Kumperensiya sa Ginhawa). Within the past year, the COVID-19 virus has changed and shaped the lives of individuals and society as a whole. With that in mind, the conference was held with the goals of understanding the experiences of Filipinos during the pandemic, modeling the means of achieving kaginhawaan in the different aspects of one’s life.

We recently reached the one-year mark, and while a pandemic was definitely not in our plans, we thought we’d share some of the most valuable lessons we learned about digital learning and training from the inaugural year of PW.